I think it would be nice to have a warning if you're about to make the first post on a thread that's more than X months old (3? 6? 12?). Just an extra checkbox saying "Yes, I do intend on reviving this thread" or something.
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I don't think so. I hate getting crap just because I saw a post for the first time after searching the forums. You can't have it both ways. People don't want you bringing up an old thread, or they flame you for not looking through the threads to see if your idea/question has already been discussed. I got jumped on by a moderator on another forum because I found a thread that discussed something I was wondering about. I figured I would just add to it. I have not gone back to that forums since. Search tools are there to help you find answers & discuss the things you want to. Don't try to punish somebody that did just that.
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In general we don't care that much about reviving old threads, though if the thread was several hundred grar-filled posts long, we'd usually prefer if it just stay dormant.
I'm not really big on technological fixes to human mistakes in general, actually. People who aren't paying enough attention to notice that they're posting a "hey me too!" comment on a years-dead thread probably wouldn't notice an "are you sure?" message either. More likely they'd just get annoyed at having to actually read what's on the screen in front of them, and our site has enough ways to annoy people already that I'd rather not add any more.
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I'm sure somebody will have fun necroing this thread sometime in the future.
The only time it annoys me when somebody necroes is when somebody tells a previous poster they are wrong, but in reality that wasn't the case when the post was made. Like when a new errata or new source book comes out.
Other times necroing a thread is useful because when something new comes out, or when something is errata'ed its nice to update the discussion.